Cisco is seeing traction with new products aimed at moving customers into integrated, multi-cloud environments where products are purchased as a service and paid for on a subscription or consumption basis.

Keerti Melkote speaks with CRN about the company's artificial intelligence-based security offensive, initial sales of the new 8400 core switch line, and beating Cisco for the first time in Gartner's Critical Capabilities for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure report.

Panasonic is rolling out new products tailored to growing market segments and launching a campaign designed to boost partners' social media marketing efforts, Gary Moeller, Panasonic's UC product manager for the U.S., tells CRN.

"A significant subset" of Google Docs users on Wednesday were locked out of their files when the service went down for a little over an hour. Channel partners and business customers were among those impacted by the service disruption.

Talari Networks has brought on Dell veteran Patrick Sweeney as its new CEO as the company gears up to put 100 percent of its sales through the channel, which is uniquely qualified to sell SD-WAN, Sweeney told CRN.